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We must accept that pain is in the mind if we want better treatments
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Roger Penrose: "Consciousness must be beyond computable physics"
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Roger Penrose: "Consciousness must be beyond computable physics"
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The new pain treatments that may finally stem the need for opioids
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Why emotions can feel so painful – and what it means for painkillers
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We are only just beginning to understand what causes nociplastic pain
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Viewing chronic pain as its own illness is providing better treatments
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Pandemic terrorism risk is being overlooked, warns leading geneticist
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A miniature universe shows particles may emerge out of empty space
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Low testosterone levels may protect women from kidney injury
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Oldest legible sentence written with first alphabet is about head lice
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Herds of pig-like peccaries seem to disappear and reappear years later
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Many anterior cruciate ligament knee injuries can heal without surgery
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Zapping specific neurons helps people walk again after spinal injury
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US midterms produce mixed results for environmental action
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Ants have evolved to farm plants on at least 15 separate occasions
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AI is better at answering questions if you get another AI to ask them
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Quantum trick sees light move forwards and back in time simultaneously
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AI uses artificial sleep to learn new task without forgetting the last
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UK will use GPS fingerprint scanner to track people facing deportation
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Gene drive could be used to wipe out invasive mice on islands
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Probiotic coated in nanoparticles may ease inflammatory bowel disease
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Climate negotiations are in disarray as COP27 enters its second week
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Crucial Congo rainforest faces growing threats from logging and mining
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Physics
Roger Penrose: "Consciousness must be beyond computable physics"
Features
Health
What is pain, how does it work and what happens when it goes wrong?
Features
Health
Why emotions can feel so painful – and what it means for painkillers
Features
Health
We are only just beginning to understand what causes nociplastic pain
Features
Health
Viewing chronic pain as its own illness is providing better treatments
Features
Culture
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Telluria review: Political dystopia from a bravura Russian writer
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Humans
Limitless With Chris Hemsworth review: How to live better for longer
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Humans
The Varieties of Spiritual Experience review: A meticulous guide
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Humans
Don’t miss: Strange World, animated sci-fi with Jake Gyllenhaal
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A Fractured Infinity review: Multiverse plot trope comes of age
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